First local seismic tomography for Red River shear zone, northern Vietnam: Stepwise inversion employing crustal P and Pn waves

Tectonophysics

Volumn 584, Issue , 2013, Pages 230-239

  Huang, Hsin Hua ^a,b   Xu, Zhen J ^b   Wu, Yih Min ^a   Song, Xiaodong ^b   Huang, Bor Shouh ^c   Nguyen, Le Minh ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b ILLINOIS STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Local seismic tomography; Moho depth; Northern Vietnam; Pn wave; Red River shear zone

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND SEISMIC NETWORK; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MOHO DEPTH; RED RIVER SHEAR ZONE; ROCK PROPERTIES; SEISMIC STUDIES; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC HISTORY; THERMAL ANOMALIES; UPPERMOST MANTLE; VIET NAM; YUNNAN PROVINCE;

RIVERS; SEISMOGRAPHS; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

SHEAR FLOW;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DISPLACEMENT; INVERSE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; P-WAVE; SEGMENTATION; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SHEAR ZONE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

CHINA; RED RIVER [ASIA]; VIET NAM; YUNNAN;

EID: 84872380481     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.03.030     Document Type: Article

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